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Re: Show HN: TrafficGun – Grow Your Traffic Easily

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Our Overlord Google does not approve unless if you mark all the links nofollow.

We strongly encourage all users on our platform to nofollow all links. TrafficGun isn't about SEO/links. Its about gaining real, live visitors.

That clarifies it a lot. Thanks

Re: Show HN: TrafficGun – Grow Your Traffic Easily

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post #3

Our Overlord Google does not approve unless if you mark all the links nofollow.

We strongly encourage all users on our platform to nofollow all links. TrafficGun isn't about SEO/links. Its about gaining real, live visitors.

Encourage instead of require? Any particular reason for that?

Re: Show HN: TrafficGun – Grow Your Traffic Easily

#14
This reminds me of the highly-untargeted spam emails that I get all the time from people asking if they can write blog posts for me. Naturally, they would contain a lot of links to some other site. The idea has definitely been done before. Think PayPerPost, SponsoredReviews, etc. Sounds like an excellent way to get yourself deranked by Google.

Re: Show HN: TrafficGun – Grow Your Traffic Easily

#16
post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We strongly encourage all users on our platform to nofollow all links. TrafficGun isn't about SEO/links. Its about gaining real, live visitors.

Encourage instead of require? Any particular reason for that?

It's in the best interest of the site owner to nofollow, so we figured encouragement is good enough :)

Re: Show HN: TrafficGun – Grow Your Traffic Easily

#18
Just created an account and ran into a bug almost immediately.

When I added my GA account it pulled all of the websites under one specific GA account, I'm assuming the one that has somehow been marked as the default. Within GA I have multiple accounts, but they're all under my one google apps account. I'm unable to see (and thus add) any website that's not grouped within this account.

For example, pretend within GA I have the following groupings:

Personal Work Customer 1 Customer 2

Each one of these 'sub accounts' within GA contains the websites I've associated with it. With TrafficGun, it only see's the websites under 'Personal' and not Work, Customer 1 or Customer 2.

Re: Show HN: TrafficGun – Grow Your Traffic Easily

#19

This reminds me of the highly-untargeted spam emails that I get all the time from people asking if they can write blog posts for me. Naturally, they would contain a lot of links to some other site. The idea has definitely been done before. Think PayPerPost, SponsoredReviews, etc. Sounds like an excellent way to get yourself deranked by Google.

Hey! Thanks for the feedback :)

'highly un-targeted' is the keyword in your comment. With TrafficGun, there's no spamming ppl with unwanted requests. Every user on the platform is amenable to cross-promotion.

As for PayPerPost, SponsoredReviews etc - our focus is primarily on cross-promotions b/w bloggers who vet each other.

Finally, re:Google - We encourage all users on our platform to nofollow all links. TrafficGun isn't about SEO/links. Its about gaining real, live visitors.

Re: Show HN: TrafficGun – Grow Your Traffic Easily

#20

This reminds me of the highly-untargeted spam emails that I get all the time from people asking if they can write blog posts for me. Naturally, they would contain a lot of links to some other site. The idea has definitely been done before. Think PayPerPost, SponsoredReviews, etc. Sounds like an excellent way to get yourself deranked by Google.

I've used those sites before. This seems different in that they're not gaming advertising but actually exchanging like-kind content. Google doesn't derank for that.
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